ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

Otago Witness, Issue 2572, 1 July 1903, Page 40

ADDINGTON STOCK MARKET.

CHRISTCHURCH, June 24

There was an average yarding of stock and a good attendance of buyers at Addington today. Fat Cattle.— ls9 head yarded, including a few useful steers, but the larger proportion was light beef. Pens were disposed of readily at about last week's rates. Steers, £6 15s to £11 2s 6d ; extra prime, £12 to £13 17s 6d ; heifers, £6 2s 6d to £9 10s ; cows, £5 17s 6d to £11. Beef ruled from 27s to 30s per 1001b.

Fat Lambs.— lsoo yarded, and all pens containing prime quality evoked brisk bidding among the buyers for export, who took the bulk of the entry at prices about Is per head in advance of those ruling last week. Lambs: Only half-fat were hard to quit. Tegs realised 17s 3d to 21s 6d; extra prime, 31s; freezeTS, 13s to 17s; butchers', 12s 3d to 17s 6d. Fat Sheep. — A large entry comprised numerous lines of particularly prime wethers nnd young ewes. These were eagerly competed for by freezing buyers at prices fully Is per per head above those ruling last week. For lighter-weight wethers and medium-quality ewes the market was firm at last week's prices. Prime freezing wethers, 18s to 24s 3d; lighter weights, 15s lOd to" 17s 6d-, merino wethers for freezing, 16s 3d to 20s; lighter, 14s 7d , prime young ewes, ISs to 225 ; freezing, 13s to 16s 9d ; butchers, 15s to 17s 6d , others, 11s to 14s 6d ; wethers and ewes, 16s Id to 21s.

Pigs. — Only a moderate yarding of fat pigs, and the presence of outside buyers firmed the market for baconers, which sold from 46s to 635, equal to 4^J to 5d per lb ; porkers realised from 263 to 39s Bd, equal to 5d per lb.